According to police, McTear had been arguing with his17-year-old ex-girlfriend at her apartment when he began beating her and the child. She told authorities that McTear threw the baby down on the concrete, then picked him up and fled in his car.

A TV news photographer spotted the baby's body on his way to work.

A sheriff's spokeswoman says the medical examiner's office will determine at what point the baby died.

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